Julia Ioffe ✓

@juliaioffe · Washington, DC · joined 02 Sep 2009

Author of MOTHERLAND: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy. A finalist for the National Book Award. Also @Puck. All views my own.

360 932Followers

3 422Following

56 002Posts total

4.9MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views50 163this account21 891median for 100K–1M

Reach, %13.90%this account6.81%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %1.21%this account1.14%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	50 163	21 891	2.29×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	13.90%	6.81%	2.04×
Engagement rate	1.21%	1.14%	1.06×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

133.9K21 Nov

58.5K31 Aug

41.8K

10.9K

31.5K1 Sep

4.5M

92.1K2 Sep

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.34%21 Nov

0.56%31 Aug

1.52%

1.24%

1.18%1 Sep

0.13%

4.19%2 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.14%.

What the audience does

Likes66.4%7 877 in total

Reposts8.8%1 040 in total

Replies17.6%2 090 in total

Quotes5.7%672 in total

Bookmarks1.6%192 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

The shock of people when they are finally—and, they believe, unjustly—treated the way they demanded other people be treated is getting rather old. 92.1K views · 3.3K likes · 440 reposts · 64 replies 02 Sep 2026 "I was weeping like an old woman for an hour!" Milo Yiannopoulos opens up about the moment ICE arrested him, and admits that he "would not wish deportation on anyone". 📺 https://t.co/Ty7BWLpQAn @piersmorgan | @Nero https://t.co/Su6eLcbniZ 4.5M views · 3K likes · 313 reposts · 1.9K replies 01 Sep 2026 Back in April, I reported that Dan Driscoll, secretary of the Army, was going to leave the job by the end of summer. Today, on August 31, he did just that. https://t.co/8arqr5TQ3H.. 31.5K views · 297 likes · 62 reposts · 11 replies 01 Sep 2026 As Dan Driscoll prepares to leave his job as Army Secretary, I'm told acting chief of staff Gen. Chris LaNeve has stopped reporting to him and goes right to Sec. Hegseth instead. My latest. https://t.co/ZBFy96qtis 10.9K views · 109 likes · 26 reposts · 1 replies 31 Aug 2026 I think what's interesting is just how clear and out-in-the-open the calculus is now: hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian and Russian lives must be sacrificed for one man's neck. 41.8K views · 507 likes · 116 reposts · 11 replies 31 Aug 2026 He is not wrong. The best-case scenario for Putin would be to be handed over to The Hague. For protection. They don't hang people there. And the court case would make for a wonderful oral history. I am just fantasizing of course. The historian must have her sources. https://t.co/ 58.5K views · 252 likes · 43 reposts · 23 replies 31 Aug 2026 MOTHERLAND is one of @washingtonpost's top 10 books of the year! https://t.co/rtWqcJox09 133.9K views · 366 likes · 40 reposts · 48 replies 21 Nov 2025